Don and Jason (do you have a blog, Jason? I'd love to put you in my sharpreader!) just opened to public a very, very useful collection of patterns related to security and web services. Check it out, start here

I notice one of the most common issues folks hit when they try to write their own managed debugger is forgetting to call ICorDebugAppomain::Attach() at the right time. I've seen this 3 different times recently. This part of ICorDebug is not documented...

Up until now, XML documents have generally languished as mere files in the lowly file-system, our relational database systems haven’t seen them as important enough to warrant inclusion, up until SQL Server 2005 that is. In SQL Server 2005, XML documents...

Running a service as Local System is bad because it has powerful access to local resources, and Network Service should be used if possible.
After some research, I have found that from the perspective of a remote service, a local service running as...

Recently WSJ's Walter S. Mossberg
spent a bit of time railing against tracking cookies as meeting his definition
of spyware. He points out the problem that some of these cookies are useful for remembering
site preferences and site login information...

Hello- I'm Jenna Adorno , technical recruiter for MSN. I fill all of the technical positions in the MSN Search engine team as well as the related advertising platform. I came to MSN a year ago from the Microsoft executive recruiting, and a prior to that...

That’s right. JobsBlog is morphing a bit. First, it went from the Moon Gals to the Gretchen Show, and now I hope to expand its scope out again … wider than it was before.
In past entries, I’ve mentioned my role here in Microsoft Staffing is morphing...

Microsoft ain’t never innervated nuthin' ! (This post is here in its entirecty - but please read it over here :)
Recently, Steve Ballmer sat down for some discussion with the Channel9 guys and a good part of the discussion revolved around Microsoft...

Just posted on MSDN a sample of MFC/Windows Forms integration as it is in Visual Studio 2005. Please be advised that some parts of it may not work with early builds of VS2005. However it should all work on release of VS2005. Here is the link
http:...

This post is here in it's entirety - but please read it over HERE :)
Second guessing Steve Ballmer .
I’ve never kissed anyone’s ass for any reason. (American dating rituals excluded.) Quite the opposite in fact. Just ask my boss how much time he...